Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b22ab6235c77527b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d3a051862770b5e6dcc1f57dba730b4f SHA-1: 2417696c58cd43e13af17b5076df900c80b9aeeb SHA-256: b22ab6235c77527b50342884e746c83d5c2796a305a420312c70d9a335fb7a11
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. No scripts were extracted, so the attack pattern is inferred from the link farm and redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=suffixes+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.drdecks.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378899/4030219.pdf
    • http://files.soulreflexions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438829/tisemufunirogebuke.pdf
    • http://files.chardoncommunityactionteam.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384018/pugotut-newifuniz.pdf
    • http://files.wicknsudsbydino.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398573/8728590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/85986419962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1588/9305/files/48813168267.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0097/7816/files/28964918977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5970/7037/files/32117086738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5126/files/30218835055.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4680/5404/files/lowatikibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5517/6097/files/cardiovascular_system_worksheet_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9739/1261/files/bar_graph_matplotlib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7733/files/kuwamikitoneleferane.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000608f.bin
40957b9fd2b2f3bcfa97c2c94a0168dd9f9d1b6f8dd7817331c23d61f11ee370
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x608F 4988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071ba.bin
3cf83f024ad25ade2d241aa2148a136819409cc6d55407dfc89b4cb46470c7bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71BA 10192 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000949e.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x949E 4324 bytes